[agents] Call for Workshop Papers: 10th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (IEEE DCOSS)

Animesh Pathak animesh.pathak at inria.fr
Wed Feb 12 11:39:12 EST 2014


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		      Call for Workshop Papers
              The 10th IEEE International Conference on
         Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (IEEE DCOSS)
                      http://www.dcoss.org/
                   Marina Del Rey, California
                        May 25 - 27, 2014
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OVERVIEW
The annual IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in 
Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2014) will take place in Marina Del Rey, 
California, USA, from Monday, May 26 to Wednesday, May 28 2014.
As with previous editions of the DCOSS conferences, this conference 
will be co-located with several closely related workshops, and will 
provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their 
contributions related to the above high-level aspects of distributed 
sensor systems.

Workshop articles will be added to IEEE Xplore and workshop proceedings 
are foreseen.

WORKSHOPS
The following Workshops have been confirmed for IEEE DCOSS '14. Note that 
the submission deadlines are different for each of them. Paper submission 
for all workshops will be through EDAS at http://edas.info/N17145


International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security (CPS-Sec)
Co-Chairs: Selcuk Uluagac and Raheem Beyah 
website: http://www.cps-security.org/
Submission Deadline:  March 14, 2014


International Workshop on Energy Awareness for Heterogeneous Networks:
Recent Hardware and Software­Defined Solutions (EAHN 2014)
Co-Chairs: Berk Canberk and Gunes Karabulut Kurt
website: http://www.thal.itu.edu.tr/eahn2014/ 
Submission Deadline:  March 05, 2014


International workshop on Internet of Things – Ideas and Perspectives 
(IoTIP-14)
Co-Chairs: Enrico Natalizio and Nathalie Mitton
Submission Deadline:  March 09, 2014
website: https://iotip2014.hds.utc.fr/


International Workshop on Performance Control in Wireless Sensor Networks 
(PWSN 2014)
Co-Chairs: Kostas Psounis and Vasos Vassiliou
Submission Deadline:  March 21, 2014
website: http://www.netrl.cs.ucy.ac.cy/pwsn2014/


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				CFPs for Individual DCOSS WORKSHOPS

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International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security (CPS-Sec) - 
http://www.cps-security.org 
28 May 2014, Marina Del Rey, California, USA

In conjunction with the 10th IEEE International Conference on Distributed 
Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2014) - http://www.dcoss.org

** Scope ** 

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) consist of large-scale interconnected systems 
of heterogeneous components interacting with their physical environments. 
In the CPS realm, humans and/or smart networked devices interact with and
 control the physical world around them through actuators, sensors, etc. 
 “CPS is envisioned to transform the way people interact with engineered 
 systems, just as the Internet transformed the way people interact with 
 information." (US National Science Foundation). Today, the boundary between 
 cyber and physical systems is blurring. Indeed, cyber devices that can 
 interact with the physical world are on the rise. For instance, smart phones
 and tablets are all equipped with various sensors (e.g., accelerometers, GPS),
 which enable the vision of CPS by allowing human beings to interact with the 
 physical world. Similarly, a multitude of CPS devices and applications exist 
 in industrial, transportation, medical, home-security, building automation, 
 emergency management, and many other systems, which serve critical functions 
 in our lives. Given the popularity of the CPS applications, securing them 
 against malicious activities is of utmost importance. Otherwise, malfunctioning 
 and insecure CPS devices and applications can cause enormous damage to individuals,
 businesses, and nations.

Therefore, the International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security (CPS-Sec) 
seeks novel submissions describing practical and theoretical solutions to the cybersecurity 
challenges facing CPS. Submissions may represent any application area for CPS.  Hence, 
papers that are pertinent to the security of embedded systems, Internet of Things, SCADA 
Systems, Smart-Grid Systems, Critical Infrastructure Networks, Transportation Systems, 
Medical Devices are all welcome.  Example topics of interest are given below, but are 
not limited to:

- Secure CPS architectures
- Authentication mechanisms for CPS
- Access control for CPS
- Key management in CPS
- Data security and privacy for CPS
- Forensics for CPS
- Intrusion detection for CPS
- Trusted-computing in CPS
- Energy-efficient and secure CPS
- Availability, recovery and auditing for CPS
- Distributed secure solutions for CPS
- Threat models for CPS 
- Physical layer security for CPS	
- Security on heterogeneous CPS
- Secure protocol design in CPS
- Vulnerability analysis of CPS
- Anonymization in CPS
- Security of CPS in automotive systems 
- Security of CPS in aerospace systems 
- Security of embedded systems 
- Security of CPS in medical devices/systems
- Security of CPS in civil engineering systems/devices
- Security of industrial control systems 
- Security of Internet-of-Things

For more information, visit the workshop’s website at: http://www.cps-security.org

** Important Dates ** 

Submission Deadline:  March 14, 2014
Acceptance Notification: April 5, 2014
Camera Ready: April 14, 2014
Workshop Date: May 28, 2014


** Submission Instructions ** 

Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review
 in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. All 
 submissions must be written in English with a maximum paper length of 6 (six) pages
 (including text, figures, and references) and formatted according to the two-column
 IEEE conference format. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library
 after the conference and included in DCOSS 2014 proceedings. Papers should be 
 submitted using http://edas.info/N17151.

** Workshop Chairs ** 

- A. Selcuk Uluagac, Georgia Institute of Technology 
- Raheem Beyah, Georgia Institute of Technology

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International Workshop on Energy Awareness for Heterogeneous Networks: 
	Recent Hardware and Software-Defined Solutions (EAHN 2014)
				In conjuction with IEEE DCOSS 2014

Today’s advanced cellular networks struggle to cope with the ever-increasing 
real-time and non-real time service demands of highly mobile users. The 
plethora of these services requests leads the provision of novel next 
generation communications modes. As one of these convenient solutions to 
foster new demands and services, the implementation of the Heterogeneous 
Networks, HetNets, has emerged as a promising approach among academic and 
industrial researchers. However, the implementation of HetNets has also 
brought huge energy consumption and energy efficiency challenges. The execution 
of energy aware and green communication paradigms in HetNets still remains to 
be addressed. This workshop is expected to merge researchers with academic and 
industrial visions in order to discuss the major aforementioned challenges and 
to stimulate novel contributions in energy aware HetNets implementations with 
powerful physical and software-defined networking points of view.

The workshop will provide an avenue for active collaboration and networking 
between researchers and industry representatives. Topics of interest cover 
most of the recent hardware and software defined communication aspects for 
energy awareness in HetNets including (but not limited to):

- Energy efficient MIMO techniques for HetNets
- Green interference management
- Energy harvesting in HetNet deployments
- Energy aware testbed implementations in HetNets
- SDN based management for green HetNets
- Self-optimization and self-healing aspects
- Green traffic engineering in Hetnets
- Energy efficient HetNets virtualization
- Energy efficient programmability in SDN controllers for HetNets
- Green routing and forwarding schemes in SDN based HetNets

Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently 
under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously 
published. Paper length should not exceed 5 pages, but one additional page will
 be allowed with additional publication fee. An accepted paper must be 
 registered before the registration deadline. An accepted paper must be presented
 at the workshop. Failure to register before the deadline will result in automatic
 withdrawal of the paper from the workshop proceedings and the program. All 
 accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE proceedings and IEEE 
 digital library. IEEE has the right to remove an accepted and registered but not 
 presented paper from the IEEE digital library.

Papers should be submitted in a PDF format through EDAS at 
https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=17145&track=55603

** Important Dates **

Workshop Paper submission deadline	March 5, 2014
Notification of paper acceptance	April 5, 2014
Submission of camera-ready papers due	April 15, 2014
Workshop date	May 28, 2014

Organizing Committee:
Berk CANBERK, Istanbul Technical University, canberk at itu.edu.tr
Güneş KARABULUT KURT, Istanbul Technical University, gkurt at itu.edu.tr

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			International workshop on Internet of Things – 
				Ideas and Perspectives (IoTIP-14)
			   In conjuction with IEEE DCOSS 2014

(Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication 
in IEEE IoT Journal)

Slowly but steadily the Internet of Things (IoT) is penetrating and transforming
 our lives. The first stage of the IoT evolution consisted in the deployment of
 RFID tags for facilitating routing, taking inventory and loss prevention of goods.
 After that we witnessed the first wave of RFID and sensor network integration toward
 vertical-market applications. Nowadays, new generations of RFID tags, in particular
 active RFID tags, often include built-in sensing capabilities. Whereas, applications
 based on sensor networks often require means for unique identification and discovery
 of objects, which are monitored by the sensor network. The convergence of sensing and
 identification technologies, together with communication and computation systems, enables
 us to gain impressive awareness about the state of the real world and will drastically
 change the way we interact with our environment. Urban planning, smart cities, intelligent
 shopping, smart meters, home automation, security and surveillance, industrial applications
 like process industry automation, supply chain, smart product management and agricultural
 applications are examples of potential applications for real-world systems. Even though
 the advent of the IPv6/6LoWPAN protocol suite solved several technical issues,  many
 challenges are still open in the research and development communities concerning the
 choice of communication paradigms, architectures and technology.

The main focus of this workshop is on technologies, applications and paradigms of the IoT 
that are already deployed or are under investigation and that belong to the second stage of
 the IoT evolution.
 
The next step in the evolution of the IoT is its characterization as the underlying technological
 layer needed to shape and substantiate higher layer concepts such as semantic web and personalization.
 In fact, the IoT is the enabling technology to allow virtual and physical worlds to converge in what has
 already been defined as Web 3.0. If, currently, the IoT is the most suited companion of blogging, podcasting,
 tagging and social networking, we can imagine that its evolution will foster the rise of statistical, 
 machine-constructed semantic tags and algorithms through the construction and exploitation of semantic databases
 empowered by distributed and cloud computing. The integration of the IoT with semantic databases, capable of
 delivering accurate information about the nature and the state of every physical object will introduce a staggering
 amount of new applications opportunities as well as potentially lead to an ultimate “Big brother scenario”. 
 Therefore, a particular interest will have to be given to appropriate security and privacy control mechanisms.
The secondary focus of this workshop is on IoT vision and perspective towards Web 3.0.

** Tracks and Topics **
IoTIP features two tracks:
- Current ideas: for technical works currently under investigation;
- Future perspectives: for vision papers envisaging possible future technologies, paradigms and applications for IoT.

The topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

- IoT paradigms, architectures, applications and technologies
- IoT systems and components
- IoT for semantic web and personalization
- Tools for developing IoT applications
- Blogging, Podcasting, Tagging and Social networking through the IoT
- Cloud vs distributed computing for the IoT
- Security and privacy control mechanisms
- Performance assessment and management (QoS, scalability, reliability, etc)
- PHY layer, Spectrum management for IoT radio communications
- MAC protocols for IoT
- Mobility management
- Naming, address management and End-to-End Addressability
- Object, device and service management
- RFID, sensors, actuator technologies
- Middleware
- Sustainable design and technologies (e.g. energy-efficiency)
- Test-beds and field trials
- Standardization and regulatory issues

** Submission&Dates **
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current
 research on scientific issues related to IoTIP topics of interest.

Standard IEEE conference templates for LaTeX formats are found at 
here: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html 
You can also use the sample template for Microsoft Word: A4, US letter.

All submissions should be written in English with a maximum of six (6) printed pages
 including figures. Authors may add at most one (1) page at $100.
Please submit your abstract and paper through EDAS at http://edas.info/N17145

Note that IoTIP 2014 has two tracks and authors must suggest their preferred track for
 their paper at the time of submission. The conference chairs, however, reserve the right
 to switch papers between tracks if they deem them a better fit for another track.

Please note that the proceedings of this workshop will appear in IEEEXplore and will be
 included in DCOSS conference proceedings.
Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in IEEE IoT Journal.

** Important dates **

Paper submission: March 9th, 2014
Author notification: April 1st, 2014
Camera ready: April 13th, 2014
Workshop date: May 28th, 2014

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CALL FOR PAPERS

PWSN 2014
6th International Workshop on Performance Control in Wireless Sensor Networks
http://www.netrl.cs.ucy.ac.cy/pwsn2014/

May 28 2014, Marina Del Ray, California, USA

In conjunction with the 10th IEEE International Conference on Distributed 
Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '14)
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Most existing wireless sensor network (WSN) installations have in common that 
they are not considered time-critical. No immediate action has to be undertaken
 as a response to the received data. However, many emerging WSN applications 
 such as plant automation and control, smart cities or health care applications
 require immediate and guaranteed actions. In such environments, data has to be
 transported reliably and in time through the sensor network. In some scenarios,
 data even has to travel through the sensor network and the Internet to reach 
 the destination. In this situation the overall system spanning the Internet and 
 sensor networks must provide together the required performance characteristics. 
 Due to the lack of appropriate models, components and protocols, it is currently 
 very difficult to construct and operate a WSN with performance guarantees. Thus, 
 the commercial success of wireless sensor networks in many application areas is 
 unsure unless this particular problem is understood and solved. 

The PWSN workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners designing 
and deploying sensor networks that have to meet specific performance targets. 


Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
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•	Communication protocols with deterministic performance 
•	Network resilience, fault tolerance, network survivability
•	Sensor data quality, integrity, and availability
•	Performance-aware middleware
•	Real-time operating systems for sensor networks
•	Actuation and control 
•	Programming abstractions for deterministic sensor networks
•	Impact of security features on network performance
•	Experience with real-world deployments and applications
•	Performance management of deployed sensor networks 
•	Timely data storage, retrieval, and processing 
•	Performance modelling and performance evaluation
•	Configuration and installation support
•	Performance debugging and performance optimization


Important dates:
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Paper Submission deadline: 	March 21, 2014
Acceptance Notification: 	April 7, 2014
Camera Ready Paper: 		April 14, 2014
Workshop date: 			May 28, 2014


Workshop Co-Chairs
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Konstantinos Psounis, - University of Southern California
Vasos Vassiliou - University of Cyprus

Paper Submission
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Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review 
in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. All 
submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) 
printed pages (in Two-Column IEEE Conference Format), including text, figures, 
and references. 
Papers should be submitted through EDAS at http://edas.info/N17153
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